Graveside service for Joanne Mae Schendel will be at 1:00 pm Thursday, December 22, 2016 at Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, OK with Chaplain Daniel Letourneau, Aspire Hospice, Lawton officiating.

Arrangements are under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends Wednesday evening from 5pm until 7pm at the funeral home.

Joanne Mae Schendel, 89, Lawton passed away Monday, December 19, 2016 in Lawton.  She was born November 24, 1927 in Deshler, OH to Harry Eugene and Ida Marie (Bergman) Johnson.  She graduated from Deshler High School in 1945.  After high school, she worked for a time at the town bakery.  She married CSM (Retired) Harry W. Schendel on March 21, 1949 in Chicago, IL.  He passed away March 27, 2004.  She was a good Army wife who accompanied her husband on many tours to include Germany and took care of the children and kept their house in order during his two tours in Vietnam.  She was also an active member of the Fort Sill NCO Wives Club.  After the children were grown, she worked many years at the Fort Sill Child Care Center to keep herself busy.  She enjoyed reading and working cross word puzzles.  One of her favorite things to do was to get on the phone and visit with her mother and her many sisters and brothers in Ohio.

Survivors include her children Larry William Schendel and wife Yuri of Lawton, Lynn Fisher of Fayetteville, AR, granddaughter Ann Marie Riha and husband Michael of Fayetteville, AR, great granddaughter Breanna Fisher of Fayetteville, AR, and her brothers and sisters, Susan "Tootie" Johnson of Findlay, OH, Ronald "Doby" Johnson and wife Rosaline of Deshler, OH, Barbara Taylor of Grovetown, GA.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, 2 sons, Gary Lee and David Eugene and siblings Robert Johnson, Marjorie Marie Peterson, Jean Johnson, Richard "Andy" Johnson, Danial "Hawk" Johnson, Helen Johnson and Marilyn Johnson.